Quotes About Knowledge

The most important thing you can do when starting a business is surround yourself with smart people who know a lot more than you do in certain realms.

I was taught that education is the most important thing.

The most important thing I learned as a foreign correspondent in about 80 countries is that it takes a very shallow knowledge of history to think that there are solutions to most problems.

The one thing that I would say that defines me is I love to learn. I get excited about new things. I buy more books than I read or finish.

The one thing that makes me nuts is if there's a problem or something that I don't know about.

The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience.

Curiosity killed the cat, but where human beings are concerned, the only thing a healthy curiosity can kill is ignorance.

The only thing that everyone needs to look out for is keeping the students reading through high school and thereafter.

The only thing you have to know are your words.

As far as I can see, about the only thing I've missed is a college education.

When it comes to sending my children to college, I want the best education. It's the only thing I'm really leaving them - a good education.

I care about people, and I've learned in life that the only thing we are here for is to learn and teach.

I was originally going to be a lawyer, and the only thing I remember from the art of cross-examination is - you can see this one coming up Sixth Avenue - never ask a question the answer to which you do not know.

The problem with Google is you have 360 degrees of omnidirectional information on a linear basis, but the algorithms for irony and ambiguity are not there. And those are the algorithms of wisdom.

If you're writing fantasy or science fiction, it's really hard to do if you don't know a lot, at least in a basic way, about how the real world works.

I guess, in a very real sense, I'm a Gnostic. I had been looking all my life for some great mystery... I think somewhere deep in my mind is the notion that if I could learn just the right thing, I would be saved.

When we act ignorant as a community, we are not doing the right thing.

We've discovered the secret of life.

The secret of any kind of reporting is to go with a guide. So if you, you're going to see Hezbollah in Beirut, you go with someone who knows the local people, and you'll be fine.

You see people who are 19 or 20 years old and they don't even know who The Who is. It's like, where have you been? Justin Timberlake? C'mon. Where are the roots?

Theater is where you go to find out something new that you don't know. It goes through somebody's brain and comes out in a comprehensible way that is beautiful, that's really interesting.

I never studied theatre; I learned it by doing it. If I had studied theatre, I would not be making the kind of theatre I am making.

I guess we've had a very close relationship because I don't pretend to know about cinema and I think I do know a bit about theatre but he does, he respected that and so we really just had a collaboration which went completely like this.

I always thought from my knowledge of London theater and the audiences here that they would appreciate a truly genius piece of theatrical work.